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Orange County Indexed

William Petty to Charles Arrenton

17 Aug 177_ · ODB 3/528

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
Unknown
From
William Petty
To
Charles Arrenton
Land
181 acres
Waterways
Robinsons Creek
Neighbors
James George; Copeland
Roads and landmarks
Copeland's Path
Citation
ODB 3/528
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (State Archives film).

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Title and grant references

  • Granville grant: Gv228, to John Patterson, 23 May 1758, 640 acres, on S side of Haw River, on Robersons Creek, adj Little Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 459
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 443

From the bracketed notes in Mark Chilton’s deed-book posts. OCPQS is the minutes of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; RegLn is a line of the colonial Register of Orange.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 3 (look for ODB 3/528). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The date could not be read with certainty.
  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

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